| ps3_jrpg_gamer said: microsoft is the real culprit this gen for the low sales of jrpgs to an extent it would be better 360 to get out of japan star ocean ,tales as 360 exclusives |
Actually thats Square-Enix and Namcos fault. Both of them took the bait and both lost. No one was forcing them to go exclusive or timed exclusive.
Square-Enix could have easily made Star Ocean 4 multiplatform and it probably still would have done at least 200k on the 360.
Tales of Vesperia could have went multiplatform and done decently to. Actually in the long run Namco still did well in Japan, while TOV got exclusivity in Europe/US so all was not bad.
I don't know the exact cost of porting a game over, but it can't be too bad when you see so many games released multiplatform.
For example, Square-Enix knows FFX13-2 will probably sell 1/4th of the units on the 360 then it does on the PS3 but obviously the profit margin is still there otherwise they wouldn't put it on the 360.
It also makes my wife a happy gamer cause we don't want to buy another system (and with the Wii U coming out and new xbox not far behind, its pointless to add another system in our house outside of the 3DS).
It's just that simple.
